Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium, and they gathered the
whole battalion before him. And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe upon him, and
plaiting a crown of thorns they put it on his head, and put a reed in his right hand. And
kneeling before him they mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And
they spat upon him, and took the reed and struck him on the head. And when they had mocked
him, they stripped him of the robe, and put his own clothes on him, and led him away to
crucify him.